What disasters are likely in your area? (maps)

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Fires:


Floods:


Hurricanes:


Earthquakes:


Landslides:


Tsunamis:


Tornadoes:


Volcanoes:


Republicans:

[DS1]

1. MA and VT for the win

[Bonhomme Richard]

15. LOL, CT also.

[madrchsod]

2. floods and republicans

[EFerrari]

3. Quakes and tsunamis.

http://sp1.mm-a2.yimg.com/image/2326695691

[polichick]

4. This new breed of Republican (fascist) is by far the most dangerous...

Please God, BEAM THEM UP!

[FREEWILL56]

8. No beam them down.

[polichick]

17. LOL nt

[tammywammy]

5. Hail Storms, Tornadoes, Fires

Republicans

[yellowdogintexas]

38. got that and bad traffic too. .....on the East of 360 side anyway.

how are you?

[tammywammy]

49. I'm doing great!

I'm lucky that I work in the afternoons to evenings, so I miss all rush hour traffic. :) What's going to be bad, is "soon" they're supposed to be starting the expansion of 183. That's going to be the pits.

Luckily, I haven't been effected by the stadium construction too much yet. That'll change once they start the I-30/360 interchange construction, since I drive on 360 every day.

The house is doing great. My boyfriend just moved in with me, and I'm gonna put him to work painting and doing yard work. :P It's a fair trade off, since I do the cooking. Plus, he's buying me cable and internet for the house! Well, he needs the internet for work, and is practically dying living off my rabbit ears right now. :)

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. ACK! Republicans!

That has to be the scariest map of all!

[usaftmo]

66. I was thinking the same thing

when I first saw the title of the thread!

I see rethuglicans...they're everywhere!

[DemReadingDU]

7. Ohio - floods & earthquakes

Yikes - Republicans are everywhere

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9. Isn't Ohio somewhat tornado-prone? I had a friend from Xenia, Ohio and

that entire town was leveled by tornadoes in 1974.

[DemReadingDU]

12. lots of tornados too

Most of the downtown area of Xenia was leveled in 1974. It was devastating.

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23. Just added the tornadoes map.

For some reason I forgot it when I did the original post.

[DemReadingDU]

25. great, thanks!

[Mrs. Overall]

10. Fire, earthquake, tsunami, volcano--

I'm in the Pacific Northwest (Puget Sound). Although we don't technically get hurricanes, we have had some windstorm/rainstorms that have been weak hurricane strength and that have caused a lot of damage.

Even though the area looks blue, there are enough red creatures running around to cause problems here as well.

[Quixote1818]

11. Shoulden't the Republican Map be at the top?

This is the funniest OP I have ever seen on DU! :thumbsup:

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29. I think they are beneath everything.

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[Arugula Latte]

13. earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis -- not Republicans, thank goodness

[depakid]

22. I don't know- the Oregon legislature was a disaster

of epic proportions for about 10 years.

Not Can-do Republicans of old, like Tom McCall, Norma Paulus, Dave Frohnmayer, etc., but the ugly nightmare kind who seek to destroy everything that their predecessors helped to build.

Sure, we might get a tsunami- which is why we have a warning system- MOO- COWS.

LOL

You may have heard it at Cannon Beach:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/multimedia/2007/09/cannon_beach_leads_way_in_tsun.html

[lpbk2713]

14. Some times I think I'd prefer the hurricanes.

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16. New England

About the worst we have to contend with is the occasional "Mother of All Snow Storms", and even that's not much of disaster.

You wouldn't know it though by the over reaction by some... at times it appears as though the end of the world is near due to all the bunker shoppers flocking to the supermarket at the mere mention of even a few snowflakes falling.

[Bobbieo]

27. Earthquakes - Yuma - Republicans, Republicans, Republicans

[bigwillq]

59. HA!

So true about the shoppers! LOL! :rofl:

[mike_c]

18. here is where I live....

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/obs/rmobs_pub/html/mendocino.html

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30. I'm feeling shaky just looking at that!

[tanyev]

19. I'm safe from volcanoes and tsunamis!

:woohoo:

[OzarkDem]

20. Great Lakes region is great

Not much in the way of hazards, plenty of water, low cost of living and lots of Dems.

[baldguy]

24. And few jobs.

[OzarkDem]

74. No more so than anywhere else

Its a great place to live, for those who don't mind 4 seasons.

Even seniors are moving back from Florida because they are tired of being away from family. Warm weather all year round doesn't make up for being near family.

[renie408]

21. Your district map is wrong.

We are district #5, Lancaster County, in SC and we are Democrat. It is right against the NC stateline below Charlotte. It should be right in the middle of SC where the dip is.

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28. I uploaded a new map in its place - click Refresh

There's less white on this map and it is shaded to show strong and weak red and blue. I hope your county is right on this one.

[renie408]

31. LOL...

I didn't mean for you to go to that much trouble! I was just looking for us as 'blue' and didn't see us there. I am pretty proud that we are in the blue minority here in SC.

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33. This new map is more refined and less scary - the red seems toned down.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. In the NYC metro area, usually occasional floods due to rain and

snow storms (nor'easter or blizzards), hurricanes (often no more than a brush of it) and triple-H heat waves.

And we in New York are on our way to decimating the Republican Party in 2008 - we already did heavy damage to it in 2006.

:kick:

[JMDEM]

32. OH MY GOD

Alaska broke off and ended up inside Mexico? When did that happen? Hawaii too!

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37. Ted Stevens ordered it so he could build a bridge to nowhere

[Generator]

34. Californians moving here

AW shucks, I even married one. He only starts to get a pass after having native children.

[tandot]

35. In the part of CA we live, Republicans are definitely the worst disaster

We can deal with the fire and floods...but those Republican assholes are very persistent in our area

[uppityperson]

36. Thanks for all that.

No hurricanes or repubs here.

[krispos42]

39. Tornadoes and floods

Good think I live on the second floor...

[FloridaJudy]

40. Tornadoes and Hurricanes

Lived through more than I care to think about. Also lightning. It's not on the map, but this is the lightning capital of the US.

Republicans: not so much. We're the bright blue square surrounded by the sea of red in North Florida. Driving more than a couple of miles in any direction is not recommended, however.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

41. scary stuff, especially the tornados and the last display.

[JMDEM]

42. Realistically

The biggest threats I see are continued fires in the west, hurricanes in the SE, and one huge mutha of an earthquake building up under the L.A. area.

We need a national organization -- a group kind of like the military, but more geared towards peace than war, prepared to handle these disasters. I think a good name for it might be something like "the National Guard".

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. Tornados are about all I have to worry about

Technically, Minnesota is flood-prone, but I don't live near a river or creek, and if my nearby lake flooded all the way to my doorstep, well, that would be a 1000-year flood for sure.

Maybe if it got real, real, real dry, we could have brush fires, but they'd have to burn through about twenty miles of suburbs to reach my little urban village.

We get blizzards, not as many as in my childhood, but if you have plenty of food and a functioning furnace, you just stay inside and catch up on your reading. :-)

[NotGivingUp]

44. k&r! Will you please tell me where you found all the excellent maps?

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45. From this site:

http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/

Except for the tornadoes one, I can't remember where I got that. And the Republicans map, I can't remember where that one was.

[NotGivingUp]

52. thanks so much! n/t

[DesertRat]

46. Fires and Floods and Republicans! Oh my!

[qanda]

47. Now, this deserves a k&r

Thanks for the laugh.

[bbgrunt]

48. repukes--the biggest hazard of all!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

50. All but hurricanes, tornados, and republicans, here in SW Washington.

Fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, we can expect.

Add politicians, ice storms, blackberries, and moss.

"There is no safety in the cosmos." - Alan Watts

[Faux pas]

51. Floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, volcanoes and repukes....

I'm more worried about the repukes than the other things. Nature isn't personal.

[mvd]

53. Floods, and residual effects from hurricanes

Maybe more direct effects if a hurricane went up the Delaware river. Moderate threat of Repukes, and slight tornado threat. There have been a couple small earthquakes, but west of here. I haven't felt one.

[Yael]

54. I am looking through these, pleased that I landed in an area with low weather issues

Then I got to the last slide. Can that red county get any redder?

:scared:

[LWolf]

55. Fires, volcanic activity,

and possible earth shakes related to volcanic activity.

[malaise]

56. Wow

Great thread.

[Snarkoleptic]

57. The New Madrid Fault has a great deal of potential to affect...

Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Fault

[SoCalDem]

58. The republican map is distorted..you must view it with this one too..( sorry it's big)

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61. I got a population map, is that what you were posting?

I think the people in Wyoming would argue that acres vote, not people.

[SoCalDem]

62. I took yours for a political map..not just numbers

:)

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65. There are some other maps which adjust the areas of blue and red according to the population

Somebody here uses a small version of it as their signature picture.

[11 Bravo]

60. I'm just outside of D.C.

The greatest disaster in my lifetime is the jug-eared little prick who somehow oozed under the transom of the White House.

[Flabbergasted]

63. Glad I read this. KR

[sutz12]

64. Volcanoes, earthquakes, the occasional flood or fire....

But I'm pretty safe from Republicans. :)

ps, although my local rep is an R. :shrug:

[Sirveri]

67. Tsunami map is wrong. East coast faces a serious risk.

Las Palma Volcano, if it blows it could send a mountain into the ocean, creating one of the largest Tsunamis ever seen. It would devastate the Eastern seaboard and a good chunk of Europe.

[LibDemAlways]

68. LOL....Fires, Earthquakes, and

r's recklessly driving huge suv's one-handed. All three are the stuff nightmares are made of.

[ananda]

69. drought or flood here

.. depending

[ruiner4u]

70. tornadoes and rebuplicans... *sigh*

[madokie]

71. all but three and the last one was one of 'em

re:puke:s are killing us here in Oklahoma, we're eat up with 'em

edit: change wasn't to was

[NEOhiodemocrat]

72. Didn't I hear Bush was coming to Ohio?

That was the first thought I had, loved it when Republicans listed!

[debbierlus]

73. I tell you, Berkshire County in Western MA. And, EVERYONE can get married

Little slice of heaven. All Du'ers are on the invite list. We want to keep our dark blue status on the map!

[otohara]

75. Sox Sweep Rockies

say it ain't so!

[MedleyMisty]

76. You know - the biggest concentration of Republicans

is not in the South, according to that map.

Just saying.